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In some sense reality has to be of that nature, because the odds of us existing by chance is so small it suggests that our model is wrong and our existence was in fact guaranteed.

Sampling bias: we only exist to perceive the reality in which we exist. the countless realities in which we don't exist, we don't experience.

This is called the Anthropic Principle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

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